Gervonta Davis trashed Saturday night’s fight between heavyweight Jared Anderson Ryad Merhy, calling it a “weak” match-up. Anderson (17-0, 15 KOs) made it boring, playing it safe against the punching bag that Top Rank had matched him with for his 10-round headliner at the American Bank Center in Corpus Christi, Texas.
Tank Drops Truth Bombs
“A weak-a** heavyweight. I turned it off,” said Gervonta Davis on X, talking about the fight between Jared Anderson and Ryad Merhy. “Big s***y,” said Tank about Anderson.
The crowd booed both fighters from the second round on, but it did little to motivate either of the heavyweights to show some ambition. Anderson looked scared and let his hands go to finish Merhy, who wasn’t throwing anything. This fight was just a set-up job that exploded in the face of Anderson’s promoters, Top Rank, for creating this abomination.
Where did Top Rank find Merhy? I want to know because he looked terrible in his awfulness. The red flag for me was Merhy’s loss to Kevin Lerena in 2023, a 12-round unanimous decision. They found this guy from a recycling bin and used him to make Anderson look good, which is impossible.
When I watched Merhy get schooled by the ham & egger Lerena, it was obvious that Top Rank was using Merhy to try and make Jared Anderson look like the next big thing.
They’re wasting their time dressing Anderson up to make him look like a star by feeding him fodder because the fans see through it.
Top Rank’s Epic Fail
Last night, it royally backfired on Top Rank, with Anderson looking worse than he did in his fight with Charles Martin. When will Top Rank understand that they can’t trick the public?
They need to throw Anderson to the wolves, and if he can’t hang, cut him loose. If it was me, I would have dumped Anderson because he ain’t got it.
Anderson’s Flaws
Mentally and physically, Anderson is lacking. His fight against Merhy showed three missing elements that will prevent him from ever becoming one of the top heavyweights:
- Power: He can’t punch, and he worsens it by using his good friend Shakur Stevenson’s pull-back style of fighting.
- Killer Instinct: Anderson has got the killer instinct of a kitten.
- Courage: Like a puppy. I hate to say this, but Anderson ain’t heavyweight material, and he never will be. When is Top Rank going to get a clue and dump Anderson?
Tank was being kind with his comments because it was the most awful fight I had ever seen in my life. I still don’t know what Top Rank was thinking by using the second-tier fighter Ryad Merhy as Anderson’s opponent. They obviously are trying to make Anderson look good to sell him to the public, but this isn’t how you do it.